duane Well, you are welcome to put your money(time) where your mouth(keyboard?) is, welcome to the moderation team. Remember that the topic should be formatted as a suggestion and not a demand or rule.
You should now have access to the moderation tag/category so you can create the working topic for it there and get also feedback from the rest of us(mods & admins), I'll split the other comments from it and move it to a more appropriate category later when we are all in agreement that it's in a good state for that. A copy of the WIP post can also occasionally be posted here to gather some feedback more openly.
For reference here is the current/old pinned topic I see this replacing:
https://godotforums.org/d/27022-getting-started-on-the-forums
Which is to say that, something already exists for this(sort of) actually but the way stickies(pins) and categories(primary tags) work, the stickies are only visible in the landing/latest posts page if you haven't yet read them.
The 'how to ask better questions' or such post could be added to it or you could add other posts to your topic covering the same info from there and your topic could become it's replacement then, because the other topic is from the old forums software days and frankly a bit outdated now. So I'm inclined to favor the latter.
I'll still need to create a top/header link to some central topic/page that would link to all the other important topics/stickies we have later. Cause frankly IMO the sticky/pin system in this forum software doesn't work all that well for the classic purpose. I also still have to get around to re-juggling/reformatting or merging the different primary tags/'categories'...
edit: @duane I should probably clear it up, I'm not trying to force you to actually take this on, but you seem to have put more thought to this recently than I have managed to and probably deem it more important right now than I do, so it's meant to be a formal approval on my part for you to tackle this if you are willing to. But feel free to let me know if you aren't or can't afford the time.